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On 8/21/2019 at 4:42 PM, Crunchy Dragon said:

Looks to be a Pentium MMX going by the lettering.

Yep. At some point years ago someone had a detailed response about it but I can't seem to find the reply. I think I'll add a disclaimer next to the question since people are still answering it 6 years later.  

 

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12 hours ago, quakeguy said:

My gaming rig needs more gigabytes, seems kinda wasted on a Pentium 4 retro PC.

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Heh, that's the point where you do the ol shuffling around all the time when you have a file that is x big and you have no drives with that amount of space left.

 

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Can and should are two different things. Lol. I have a laptop that I think hits those minimum specs, not sure on the chipset graphics tho...

Actually my atom laptop can hit bare minimum, but I don't have Windows installed or do I want to make an account for anything. You can get an atom laptop like that for like $30 or under on eBay now. They're ok with Linux for a super light travel device if you don't want a tablet. Basically disposable laptop you can take to China and not worry about it being confiscated or bugged or whatever lol.

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Own is a strong word, I don't think you own any games that require an internet connection and a client to play them. You're borrowing them on the whim of others who can at any point revoke your ownership of them for any reason they see fit.

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Here's my BBC Micro, (one of three) circa 1981 ... configured with twin 40/80 switchable 5.25" drives, a 6502 co-processor and a datacentre fitted. That gives it the ability to have a "winchester" hard drive inside which is mimicked on a CF card and it can read Fat 32 USB sticks.

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The "joyboard" project is a system whereby I traced all the tracks on the keyboard and wired them out to a system of jacks which I cabled to mirror the keyboard traces. The net result is I can hook up home made "joysticks" and buttons so I can play all those games with awkward keys. When I was a teen, I worked to assemble "brand new" 8086 PC's with a "turbo boost" of 8Mhz with 640K of ram fitted with a 5Meg Winchester hard drive. Man... this thread makes me feel old ?

 

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I can see from a lot of these posts I need to dig out one or two of my systems and take some pics and post them. The 486s would impress some of you. My first self-built system is an AMD K6 166mhz based system, running Windows 95. The first computer I ever had in the house was a Tandy TRS-80. Most pocket calculators of today (they still exist) run a CPU faster than it had.

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2 hours ago, Genwyn said:

if you've ever wondered how powerful a laptop dual core from 2006 is, here ya go

110 cpu z multithreaded score

even with optimal airflow to keep the cpu under 60c under full load

 

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See if it'll go to a Core 2 Duo. My Tecra M5 allowed me to go from a T2600 to a C2D T7600.

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2 hours ago, Bitter said:

Working on packing up a box of stuff for someone. I don't think it'll all fit in one box. The FDD/Card reader is a weird one, but kind of cool.

Always kinda wanted one of those FDD/card reader combos, not gonna lie. I can't resist the quirkiness.

 

Then again I may just end up having to get one of those things that lets you shove a floppy and slim optical drive into a single 5.25" bay for whatever XP rig ends up being shoved into an Enthoo Pro M at *insert date here*.

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So i've been messing around with my dual p3 some more, thought i'd post some progress here.... if anyone even cares :P.

 

Been waiting on a PCI sata card, that arrived over a week ago, the card worked fine but it never detects any HDD's, not in any system i have here. tried drives from 36GB up to 1TB. Nothing gets detected. So that card goes RMA, hoping to replace it some time soon.

While troubleshooting the new card i finally ran into posts about my old card where other ppl had problems with the pc locking up while booting as well. Someone figured out it was silicon image (chipset manufacturer on both sata cards i got now) broke compatibility, with older systems, with a bios update. I happened to have updated the card to the very latest some time ago so i flashed an older confirmed working bios on it.

At first it didn't work but today i decided to, just to be sure, try all the pci slots the system has. It actually started working (the old card, not the new lol). So i finally got into windows (installed on a PATA drive) with a SATA drive attached and detectable without a crash, yay. I cleared all my old drives from any partitions or data some time ago so it wasn't even initialized. After doing that and formatting.... i got an error, "windows cannot format this drive", or something like that.

Hoped it was just formatting that was the problem so i formatted the drive in another pc and tried installing windows on it.... that worked up until it had to reboot and actually show a windows logo while booting, it crashed immediately. Not a BSOD or anything... just a black screen.

 

After inspecting the system more closely i've found a dented capacitor between the bottom 2 PCI slots (those give me the most trouble atm, the sata or lan cards wont work there). This might have happened long ago and be something the previous owner did or it might be something i did. It's just a tiny dent in the top, can this break the capacitor? Anyway, looking the entire system over, i've also found a blown cap above the left CPU. Hopefully that cap is the same as the ones i've already replaced, i ordered some extra's at the time.

 

So, more soldering in my future i suppose. Just wanted to say i'm still working on the damn thing.... pics are still coming at some point, hopefully. Unless i break this thing, then it's not really worth it, is it?

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2 hours ago, Helly said:

my dual p3

mmmmmmm yes. #DualSocketMustardRace

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Well. Some video cards work and some don't but the shocker is a card that recently worked does not work now, my trusty old GTX 650. The 7600GT shows up, the 7800 GTX works but it's OpenGL version is very old, the 9800GT works but has a very hot and very loud inductor on it. I thought it had some bad solder joints at them but re-soldering them didn't make any difference.

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8 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

mmmmmmm yes. #DualSocketMustardRace

I can technically agree with this, I have a pair of Athlon MPs xD

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I actually have a fully functional Macintosh SE (not SE/30) sitting around, found it in a storage closet! It even has original MacOS on it! I don't know the exact specs but I am pretty sure it has 1MB of RAM and an 800K floppy drive.

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On 8/24/2019 at 11:22 AM, flibberdipper said:

Always kinda wanted one of those FDD/card reader combos, not gonna lie. I can't resist the quirkiness.

 

Then again I may just end up having to get one of those things that lets you shove a floppy and slim optical drive into a single 5.25" bay for whatever XP rig ends up being shoved into an Enthoo Pro M at 8/30/19.

date inserted get to work. /s

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8 minutes ago, will4623 said:

date inserted get to work. /s

Man I wish. I'd love to give this board the home + video card + RAM that it deserves but it's definitely very low on the list of priorities.

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Boy, this thread is amazing! Incredible that I had never checked it out, and it dates back to 2013. Some of the PCs and parts that you all have posted here are unbelievable! Beautiful to see so many people with old-timey rigs still going on.

I'll share pictures of my very first PC, born in 1995. I recovered it in 2016 and have been trying to refurbish it, but it's been hard due to scarce availability of old parts in my country. I've had two PSUs fail and it's harder and harder to find good IDE hard drives.

This PC has a Pentium P54C 100Mhz processor and a "graphics card" (more like a 2D graphics accelerator) by Cirrus Logic. The whole list is in my signature below. 

 

Here are some pics: 

 

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This is a shot of the motherboard with the CPU at the bottom, RAM sticks at the top left corner, the graphics card under it, and the sound card at the very bottom left. The stick in the brown slot in the middle is a CPU cache card.

 

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Here's a pic of the Pentium I P54C. A beast that never really roared, to be honest. Quite a run-of-the-mill chip at the time.

 

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And here's a close-up shot of the Cirrus Logic GD3454 VGA, with its whopping 1MB of VRAM that could be expanded if you included memory chips in the brown banks on the right. Pretty neat feature that ceased to exist.

 

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It was surreal finding this computer after such a long time, but I still feel a little sad that I haven't been able to bring it back to its former glory - or lack thereof hehehe.

Still, it's great just to have it lying about for the sake of nostalgia.

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2 hours ago, quakeguy said:

That is some bad yellowing in front of the case.  You should remove it and paint it white to match the rest.  I love using older hardware for retro gaming PCs.  You should stick Windows 98 SE/DOS/FreeDOS on it.  It would make an awesome retro gaming PC.

Absolutely! Too many years stashed away in an old office. I'll use a technique that the 8-bit guy showed in a video to remove yellowing from plastic pieces of old machines. After I get a hold of the essential parts to get it up and running again, I might just install Win 98 and see how it turns out.

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How did I not find this thread till now? Maybe I did and forgot idk. Anyways here is a good chunk of my older components.

 

My old abit AM2 bored I pulled out of an garage sale custom built PC. the GPU, HDD and ram where missing (the ram you see there i put it later to test components and run the system abit) but the case, CPU, a couple of IDE Lightscibe DVD drives and the PSU where there. Don't have the case anymore unfortunately but I still have the rest.

 

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The Athlon that came with the system (sorry the pictures are blurry my phone camera is trash and refuses to focus)

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A, no joke, GT 420. It was a slow card even back in it's day but I think we all know why.

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Some old laptop GPU's and CPU's (I think they are mostly Pentium 3 and 4s) a Pentium 4 640, a Core 2 Duo E6550 and some old laptop ram.

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And finally the most interesting old part I own a passively cooled  8600GTS? from Asus. 

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I have a few other old parts laying around but they are mostly LGA 775 boards and old heatsinks. I also have some old consoles too like a Dreamcast and N64 but I felt like those didn't really fit this thread.

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49 minutes ago, SukaroBlue said:

old abit AM2 bored I pulled out of an garage sale custom built PC.

I really want an AM2 board that supports SLI and a couple old Nvidia GPUs to throw into my Athlon 64 X2 rig.

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56 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I really want an AM2 board that supports SLI and a couple old Nvidia GPUs to throw into my Athlon 64 X2 rig.

I'd love to get a nice board for my 7850BE and then get something like a GTX 280 to semi-replace my current XP rig. Never really got to see what the 7850 could do because my M2N-SLI Deluxe died shortly after I got it and OC'd the piss out of my 3450.

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@Schnoz All packed, got most of it in there, at least all the working stuff. I'll PM.

 

 

 

 

Also figured out why my 650 wasn't working, I forgot to plug in the PCIe power. I ALWAYS do that, it's hidden off the side the back of the card. *facepalm*

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